Write Email in Markdown on Chrome, Firefox, and Thunderbird

Markdown syntax allows users to write text naturally, keeping the text enjoyable for a person to read, and then convert it to structurally valid XHTML (or HTML) without even using HTML tags. This makes Markdown document publishable as-is, in plain text.

If you often write codes in email, you’d know how tedious it can be. To makes things easy, install the Markdown Here extension.

Markdown Here is an extension that lets you write email in Markdown and render it before sending with syntax highlighting. It’s available for Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, and Thunderbird.

The extension works perfectly with all popular email services such as Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo Mail, and also Google Groups posts.

Using Markdown Here

Once the extension is installed, enter Compose mode in the webmail service of your choice.